[mdlug] Wine run as root?

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Carl T. Miller

> Wow.  I would think that any files that wine needs to access
> would not require root access.  I'm just wondering, does the
> user have permissions to access the audio device?  Are there
> any other devices that the user doesn't have write access to?

 What's weird is that the "Alice" game doesn't require root to run.
I did a bit more Googling and it seems that if Wine happens to get
run by root, it can mess up permissions for files in ~/.wine directory,
and running something like "chown -Rv $USER $HOME/.wine" should fix
the issue. I'll give it a shot when I get home.

 Sincerely,

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